WMO Hurricane Forecasting/Warning Workshop
World Meteorological Organization (WMO) Regional Association IV (RA-IV)
The two-week workshop conducted by the Tropical Prediction Center-National
Hurricane Center is an annual event sponsored by the WMO.
Forecasters/meteorologists from RA-IV countries are familiarized and trained
in state-of-the-art techniques for tropical cyclone prediction, warning, and
public awareness. Training is accomplished through a combination of lectures
and practical exercises, with considerable interaction between students and
course instructors.
Class picture of WMO RA-IV 2004 Workshop on Hurricane Forecasting and
Warning (Click for full-size image)
All nations gain from the training: students receive valuable training; and
the TPC interacts with its counterparts outside of the U.S., in many cases
meteorologists from countries with whom TPC must coordinate forecasts and
warnings during the hurricane season. Quite often, storms which threaten
Caribbean countries eventually become threats to the U.S. This year's
visiting meteorologists are from: Costa Rica, Mexico, Martinique,
Guadeloupe, Canada, British Caribbean territories, Dominican Republic,
Bahamas, Guatemala, Dominica, Venezuela, Colombia, Nicaragua, Haiti, Panama,
Honduras, Cuba, Belize and El Salvador.
WMO RA-IV 2004 Workshop on Hurricane Forecasting and
Warning classroom session (Click for full-size image)
Meteorologists from the Caribbean region
complete a practical exercise on the Dvorak
technique during the 2004 World Meteorological Organization (WMO) Regional
Association IV (RA-IV) Workshop on Hurricane Forecasting and Warning.
(Click for full-size image)
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